Description:
This saucer has a circular shape and shallow bowl, it is decorated in overglaze enamels in blue, orange, red, black, light green and gilding. The decoration consists of bands in orange and blue on the rim, followed inward along the rim with alternating dots of green and red enamel, around the center is a blue enamel husk border, in the center is an oval reserve with blue field and gold stars with a pair of birds on a wreath and a spray of flowers or leaves between them. The saucer shows a lot of black specks in the glaze - possible signs of later refiring. There are at least three hairline cracks to the rim and one chip to the rim edge.
Subjects:
Pottery; Enamel and enameling; glaze (coating by location); Porcelain Link to share this object record:
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